Masahiro Sakamoto
Team Manager at TIER IV
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMasahiro Sakamoto is a team manager and software engineer based in Tokyo with roughly three years in leadership roles and over a decade of hands-on experience in localization, mapping, telecommunications, and automated driving systems. He currently leads localization and mapping efforts at TIER IV, after contributing as a software engineer on related autonomy projects at Woven Planet, Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development, and Toyota Motor Corporation. His background at DENSO spans telecommunications, multi-band GPS, software-defined radio, and earlier mechanical engineering for cooling technologies, giving him a rare blend of hardware and software expertise. Comfortable operating as a secondee in cross-company R&D settings, he bridges research and product teams to move localization work from prototypes into production. Known for pragmatic problem solving in video transmission and remote driving systems, he brings systems-level thinking to sensor fusion and mapping pipelines.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo University of Science
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Github Skills (10)
autonomous-vehicles10
calibration10
self-driving-car10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
robotics7
threaded6
sse6
documentation5
evaluation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Motsu-san/autoware.universe
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 4 months
Motsu-san/autoware_launch
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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